We've had a great morning so far!
Last night before bed I put a small amount of Calendula ointment on Arthurs face. This morning his rash was nearly gone. For breakfast he ate about 1/8 cup of Meat Jelly (served cold, made from the Lamb roast last night), had a tich of coconut oil and a small drop of SKJ. the result - NO RASH!! This is such a bizzar process! I guess they are just so sensitive. It makes sense to me that the die off can result in "allergy" like responses. I guess when the body is in high healing mode it detects everthing as something potentially "bad"... even the healing foods. I guess slow and steady does win the race.
Jutka, I was looking at my medicine dropper this morning, 2 ml seems like a lot of SKJ right now. As it is, Arthur only has about 0.5 ml, if that. Maybe just try dipping your finger in the SKJ and have her lick it off. Do that once/day for 5 days, then maybe try increasing it to 2x/day and so forth.
I got some great advice for different BLW gaps food options. One mama suggested cooking down the soup stock until you had more of a gelatin. Let the gelatin cool in the fridge and then cut it into cubes for baby to suck/gum on. I loved that idea.
It was also reiterated to me how important FATS are at this stage - even moreso then proteins. Get as much meat fat into these kiddos as possible. That's what really helps to seal the intestinal wall as it's healing.
The meat jelly was a huge hit for us. I just put the drippings from the lamp roast in the fridge overnight and it turned into a jelly. Arthur could actually spoon feed himself. He was very proud and seemed to like the process
Posting as you posted Jutka. I'm so glad you got in touch with Harry. He was really great when I talked to him aswell. He said I did the same thing w/ the Vital Immune... the war between the good/bad bacterias just got really intense and it was hard for Arthurs body to cope.
The Mom I spoke to with the 5 mths die off did just meat stock/broth/meat fats and breastmilk. She was bf'ing still doing full gaps herself, so I'm not sure what to suggest RE: FF...
NCM does believe that the meat stock is enough. Perhaps if you could start to get a little fresh juice in her as well? I would think with meat stock/meat fats and fresh juice you would be getting enough nutrition wise.
ETA - And for fats, I still say focus on animal fats as opposed to fats from veggies/fruits (avocados, olive oils ect) The animal fats are a different kind of fat - mainly saturated (BM is also majority Saturated fats too btw!) Avocados and Olive Oils ect are moreso Polyunsaturated, which is quite different. I would suggest re-reading the chapter on fats in the gaps book, it starts on pg 255. She breaks down the fat composition of different type of foods on pg 259. That should help with more info, but again, animal fats are crutial right now. That's all I'm mainly going to focus on.
